| sean finney on 27 Jan 2005 03:38:41 -0000 |
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hi michael, On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:51:01PM -0500, Michael Lazin wrote: > My linux box died a little while ago, and I am thinking about building > an Athlon 64 machine to be my new linux box. Does anyone in the group > have experience with 64 bit linux? What kind of 64 bit software is > available? I am leaning towards suse as a distro. Any distro > recommendations for 64 bit? I am building this machine because I like > to play around with hardware and I like to use Linux. I am currently > running my web and mail servers on (gasp) mac os x. Maybe I will > switch my servers over to this machine after I build it. i am very happy with my debian sid am64. it's not quite yet an official debian arch, though there are a lot of folks out there using it. it's pure 64 bit kernel and userland, and i have a 32-bit chroot set up for running mplayer, playing half-life 2 (via cedega), and building big 32-bit things on my fastest machine. specs, if you're interested: amd64 3500+ MSI Neo2 Platinum Motherboard GeForce 4 Ti4200 2 GB RAM A really nice Lian Li case :) i'm also very happy with the mobo, which has dual on-board ethernet (one of which doesn't even touch the pci bus), firewire, s/pdif out, blah blah.... sean Attachment:
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